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Topic: Are We Keeping Karma? (Read 16966 times)

As I recall, only WMDKitty was REALLY bothered by the karma system, but there was a lot of annoyance &/or confusion over being smitten & not knowing WHY. The idea was that having something that said, effectively, "31 people thought you were a twat" wasn't constructive. You didn't know what they didn't like or why. You didn't know how to react because you weren't sure if it was drama-whoring, a joke, or someone actually had a beef with you.

That, coupled with the fact that most people have never witnessed a positive reaction with karma on any given forum, led to it being struck down.

And I was inclined to agree. I think that either we should just treat the karma system as a complete joke, or strike it down.

Even when the forum software has a serious feedback feature, like Invisions' for example, it's still nothing more than a toy/popularity contest. Because the systems don't force you to leave feedback.

Yeah, any serious system would have to require feedback as well as subject such feedback to moderation in order to help make sure the feedback is actually meaningful. Which would, of course, increase the moderatorsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ workload.

WMDKitty had many issues, some her doing and some not, of which Karma was only one.

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Yeah. So far, I have yet to see anyone treat it with any importance. It just may be possible that if the current crop of posters can keep that attitude it could stay ingrained within the board culture.